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We love our smoke free home!
What’s it all about?
The aim of the Smoke-Free Homes campaign is to encourage more households to take the step of banning all smoking from their home.
Around a fifth (450) of all Leicester residents who die each year do so because they smoke. Smoking is by far the largest preventable cause of ill-health and death. In 2003 it was responsible for 84% of the 134 deaths in the city from lung cancer and 17% of the 215 deaths due to coronary heart disease.
These are just some of the benefits attached to the promotion of smoke-free homes:
- Young people do not have the daily experience of older people smoking around them, giving them the idea that smoking is what people do.
- Stopping smoking in the home has the potential to protect babies and young people from exposure to dozens of cigarettes a day
- Cot death is less likely for babies raised in smoke-free homes
- Children growing up in a smoke-free home are less likely to suffer from ear, nose and throat problems, glue ear, chest infections, and asthma, and are less likely to be hospitalised as a result of smoking-related illness.
- A child in a smoke-free home will be able to take in more oxygen, leading to better health and vitality. (Carbon monoxide takes precedence over oxygen, and slowly poisons those who breathe it in.)
- 31 house fires were caused by smoking materials in Leicestershire & Rutland last year. Smoke-free homes will be safer homes.
- Smoke-free homes are cleaner and need less decorating. Social housing providers will see the benefit in their maintenance expenditure.
- Even pets will benefit; dogs and cats breathing second-hand smoke are more likely to develop cancer in their nasal passages and stomach, from breathing smoke and licking their coats.
Campaign Resources
| Postcards for display. These are being made available throughout Leicester.
If you would like copies please call STOP! on 0116 295 4141.
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Facts and Figures
Help with stopping smoking
Media
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